Re: Rugby League as it is
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2021 5:15 pm
And do you think boxing as we know it will even be legal in 20 years time or so? I don't. A consensus will come round to the fact that applying continuous heavy blows to the head leads to brain damage.
And this affects rugby too. We can whinge all we like, and complain that the games is 'sanitised'. Personally I don't agree. But the issue of head injuries is not going away. RU is taking it a lot more seriously, and so now is the NRL. And where the NRL goes, SL will doubtless fall into line eventually. We can all look at Rob Burrow, and say, how awful, but sometimes you just have to join the dots.
And this affects rugby too. We can whinge all we like, and complain that the games is 'sanitised'. Personally I don't agree. But the issue of head injuries is not going away. RU is taking it a lot more seriously, and so now is the NRL. And where the NRL goes, SL will doubtless fall into line eventually. We can all look at Rob Burrow, and say, how awful, but sometimes you just have to join the dots.